"YouTubers have been increasingly frustrated with Google's management of the platform, with disinformation welcomed back and an aggressive push for more AI (except where Google doesn't like it). So it's no surprise that creators have been up in arms over the suspicious removal of YouTube's advanced SRV3 caption format. You don't have to worry too much just yet-Google says this is only temporary, and it's working on a fix for the underlying bug."
"Google added support for this custom subtitle format around 2018, giving creators more customization options than regular users get with traditional captions. SRV3 (also known as YTT or YouTube Timed Text) allows for custom colors, transparency, animations, fonts, and precise positioning in videos. Uploaders using this format can color-code and position captions to help separate multiple speakers, create sing-along animations, or style them to match the video."
Google added SRV3 support around 2018, enabling creators to use custom colors, transparency, animations, fonts, and precise caption positioning. Uploaders use SRV3 to color-code speakers, create sing-along animations, or style captions to match videos. Recently creators discovered YouTube no longer accepts uploads using the Google-created SRV3 format, prompting concern that support had been removed. Google confirmed SRV3 support remains but temporarily limited serving of SRV3 caption files because they may break playback for some users. Engineers appear to have deployed a change that interfered with SRV3 behavior, so Google disabled most SRV3 captions while working on a fix.
Read at Ars Technica
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